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* Kind of a meta question but is their an alternate ending were Cohagen [[LudicrousGibs explodes into a bloody mess?]] I remember someone asking about this back on the IMDB boards.
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* Kind of a meta question but is their an alternate ending were Cohagen Cohaagen [[LudicrousGibs explodes into a bloody mess?]] I remember someone asking about this back on the IMDB boards.
** We do know the original cut was given an X rating for violence, but since that version has never been released or distributed in any format --legal or otherwise-- it's hard to say exactly what all was cut or edited out. It certainly seems like Cohaagen's demise was building up to a gory finish, though.
** We do know the original cut was given an X rating for violence, but since that version has never been released or distributed in any format --legal or otherwise-- it's hard to say exactly what all was cut or edited out. It certainly seems like Cohaagen's demise was building up to a gory finish, though.
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*** And the pressure deep-sea workers are regularly at would be a 700 on that scale. The pressure difference between Earth atmosphere and total vacuum just isn't enough to cause serious damage to the human body, much to Hollywood's dismay.
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** Or that first aid in this film's future is advanced enough to seal over cuts instantly, and/or cover them with bandages that blend perfectly with skin. We just don't see Quaid pause in his adventure to patch himself up.
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** Even if the procedure has a two-week limit, that doesn't mean you can't use it for education. It just means that you can't use it ''all in one sitting'' to cram in a year's schooling. Seven or eight rounds of simulation per semester would work fine. And if every student "attends" exactly the same series of simulated lessons, then it'd probably be cheaper to produce than an individually-customized fantasy vacation.
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** Obviously we never see the ship, but from the amount of people going through customs we can estimate that there are most likely hundreds of passengers on the ship, and if the trip did take days, weeks, or months, then the passengers would have had to have cabins to sleep in. From the utterly shocked reactions of Richter and the troops watching the head malfunction and Quaid take it off, this is absolutely NOT common technology. Almost certainly, Richter did a check on all the passengers when he boarded the ship, but Quaid's disguise and documents passed his check, and then Quaid spent the trip hiding out in his cabin avoiding everybody.
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* Quaid and Richter arrive to Mars at the same time. We even see the ship landing on Mars. So that means that Quaid and Richter spent a long time, from weeks to months on the same ship. How is it possible they didn't come across each other during the journey? Did Quaid spend the whole time wearing the old woman mask that could only repeat stock phrases and jammed when it couldn't say: "No"? Depending on how often those ships arrive, Lori and the Recall guy may have also been on board the same ship.
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* Quaid and Richter arrive to at Mars at the same time. We even see the ship landing on Mars. So that means that Quaid and Richter spent a long time, from weeks to months on the same ship. How is it possible they didn't come across each other during the journey? Did Quaid spend the whole time wearing the old woman mask that could only repeat stock phrases and jammed when it couldn't say: "No"? Depending on how often those ships arrive, Lori and the Recall guy may have also been on board the same ship.ship.
** It's possible that the mask wasn't programmed with stock phrases, but did indeed just repeat whatever Quaid said. But due to the fact that he was forced to wear the disguise for the weeks-long journey without being able to take it off or let it recharge, it eventually started to break down. It just happened to do so at the worst possible moment when he was going through customs.
** It's possible that the mask wasn't programmed with stock phrases, but did indeed just repeat whatever Quaid said. But due to the fact that he was forced to wear the disguise for the weeks-long journey without being able to take it off or let it recharge, it eventually started to break down. It just happened to do so at the worst possible moment when he was going through customs.
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*** Of all the theories, the notion that the Martians left the machine behind for another species fits best. If they were oxygen breathers, there's no logical reason NOT to turn it on. Even the button's simplicity seems like a message across the centuries: "This is how you activate it. Our gift to you." Symbolically joining hands with their successors.
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** Theory: the holograms are hard light projections and can physically interact with the environment. Notably the two who shoot Melina don't hit each other until the holograms starts glitching out.
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** Theory: the holograms are hard light projections and can physically interact with the environment. Notably the two who shoot Melina don't hit each other until the holograms hologram starts glitching out.
out. As for where the BULLETS have gone afterwards... No idea.
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** Theory: the holograms are hard light projections and can physically interact with the environment. Notably the two who shoot Melina don't hit each other until the holograms starts glitching out.
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* Quaid and Richter arrive to Mars at the same time. We even see the ship landing on Mars. So that means that Quaid and Richter spent a long time, from weeks to months on the same ship. How is it possible they didn't come across each other during the journey? Did Quaid spend the whole time wearing the old woman mask that could only repeat stock phrases and jammed when it couldn't say: "No"? Depending on how often those ships arrive, Lori and the Recall guy may have also been on board the same ship.
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* During the car chase on Mars where did Richter get that shotgun? When he and Helm get into the taxi, they both carry pistols. Was the shotgun just lying there? Was it left by a previous customer or do taxi drivers have them just in case?
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* This is a small thing but it always bothered me: during the fight with Richter, why does Quaid hold onto his arms to ensure they will get ripped off? I know Richter would probably have died from the fall anyway but it still seems kind of.. [[WhatTheHellHero not very heroic.]]
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*** Or, the Martians simply knew Quaid can easily recognize it's a place where his hand goes even if it's not human shaped. The humans in the film are already intuitive enough to recognize that the whole thing is some kind of reactor; even the villain recognizes the alien hand print as its activation button.
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*** Or, the Martians simply knew Quaid can would've easily recognize recognized it's a place where his hand goes even if it's not human shaped. The humans in the film are already intuitive enough to recognize that the whole thing is as some kind of reactor; even the villain recognizes guessed that the alien hand print as its is the activation button.
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*** Or, the Martians simply knew Quaid can easily recognize it's a place where his hand goes even if it's not human shaped. The humans in the film are already smart enough to recognize that the whole thing is some kind of reactor.
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*** Or, the Martians simply knew Quaid can easily recognize it's a place where his hand goes even if it's not human shaped. The humans in the film are already smart intuitive enough to recognize that the whole thing is some kind of reactor.
reactor; even the villain recognizes the alien hand print as its activation button.
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*** Or, the Martians simply knew Quaid can easily recognize it's a place where his hand goes even if it's not human shaped. The humans in the film are already smart enough to recognize that the whole thing is some kind of reactor.
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** Aside from the movie needing the glass to be that weak for it to happen, Cohagen was a greedy bastard who used the cheapest glass and didn't care for potential disasters happening as a result or someone activating the shutters before people started to get sucked out.
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*** The larger Martian hand print has smaller grooves inside of it that fit Quaid's own fingers pretty much perfectly, doesn't it?
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** More pragmatically, why would Rekall put in memories of their own employees behaving in irresponsible and immoral ways, such as lying to a customer and dumping him in a cab instead of calmly explaining what happened and offering to help him out? It'd be a great place to put in the "outfitting a spy" scene and even give him a Rekall agent buddy. Seems like an operation as slick as that wouldn't pass up the opportunity for advertising, but more accurately wouldn't give that sort of bad press to their own customers. The customer waking up and one of the first things he thinks is "Oh it's those assholes who lied to me and dumped me in a cab" is not promoting return visits.
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** This is possibly another hint that it's all a dream.
* Why is the glass in the "customs" part of the enclosure not bullet-proof? It should be for the very reason we see in the film.
* Why is the glass in the "customs" part of the enclosure not bullet-proof? It should be for the very reason we see in the film.
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** Maybe Hauser had a sneaking suspicion that one of Cohaagen's underlings might seize the opportunity to kill Quaid, thus achieving a KlingonPromotion and become Cohaagen's new Dragon. In which case, he might've put the hologram device in the stash left for Quaid, specifically so Quaid could avoid being shot.
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** That wouldn't explain why the device was built so as to be activated with a ''Martian'' hand print, not a human one like Quaid's.
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** That wouldn't explain why the device was built so as to be activated with a ''Martian'' hand print, not a human one like Quaid's.
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*** Or maybe it was built by a Martian death cult as a DoomsdayWeapon, that would poison the atmosphere with deadly oxygen and wipe out their civilization. A Martian action-hero-type defeated the cult before they could activate it, but the Martian HeroOfAnotherStory who foiled the plot died via HeroicSacrifice and never had the chance to disable the device or alert Martian authorities to its location.
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*** Or maybe it was built by a Martian death cult as a DoomsdayWeapon, DoomsdayDevice, that would poison the atmosphere with deadly oxygen and wipe out their civilization. A Martian action-hero-type defeated the cult before they could activate it, but the Martian HeroOfAnotherStory who foiled the plot died via HeroicSacrifice and never had the chance to disable the device or alert Martian authorities to its location.
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*** Or maybe it was built by a Martian death cult as a DoomsdayWeapon, that would poison the atmosphere with deadly oxygen and wipe out their civilization. A Martian action-hero-type defeated the cult before they could activate it, but the Martian HeroOfAnotherStory who foiled the plot died via HeroicSacrifice and never had the chance to disable the device or alert Martian authorities to its location.
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*** Sure, it's how dreams work. And there are probably people who wake up from their dreams and believe (at least for a short time) that whatever was happening in the dream really did happen, like dreaming that your spouse left in the middle of the night for a business trip and then being shocked to find them in the kitchen in the morning. But if that happens in a regular dream, ''there's no one to sue about it'' when you wake up confused.
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*** Sure, it's how dreams work. And there are probably people who wake up from their dreams and believe (at least for a short time) that whatever was happening in the dream really did happen, like dreaming that your spouse left in the middle of the night for a business trip and then being shocked to find them in the kitchen in the morning. But if that happens in a regular dream, ''there's no one to sue about it'' when you wake up confused. If it happens after a Rekall-dream that's contractually ''supposed'' to be psychologically harmless, there is.
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*** Sure, it's how dreams work. And there are probably people who wake up from their dreams and believe (at least for a short time) that whatever was happening in the dream really did happen, like dreaming that your spouse left in the middle of the night for a business trip and then being shocked to find them in the kitchen in the morning. But if that happens in a regular dream, ''there's no one to sue about it'' when you wake up confused.
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***The 2011 four-issue comic book sequel by Dynamite Entertainment unveils the mystery of the alien reactor by revealing that originally there used to be another planet in the solar system between Mars and Jupiter, the Martians accidentally blew it up turning it into the asteroid belt, and the cataclysm also affected Mars, turning its surface into an inabitabile wasteland. While most of the Martians left to go live elsewhere, others felt responsible and had collective visions of Quaid, thus they prepared the reactor for him. Since the machine would've taken millions of years to accumulate all the Turbinium needed to terraform the planet, the Martians put themselves in suspended animation inside Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos to extend their lives and be awakened once the reactor was started by the humans so that they can make sure everything worked out and resume their lives on a revitalized Mars.
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** Because it made for a cool scene?
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** There are two major factors that point to Quaid's experiences being real, at least in my opinion: (1) The fact that he dreams about Melina long before he meets her "for real," and (2) The dialogue between Dr. Lall and Bob about how Quaid can't simply be acting out his ego-trip because it hasn't been implanted yet. I personally think the whole thing being a dream is the more plausible explanation (mainly because, as you say, it explains away all the junk science like [[YouFailPhysicsForever the core of Mars being made of ice]]), but the second point is particularly damning; why would Rekall bother implanting any of that if he's not conscious to see it and it doesn't seem to have any bearing on the rest of the movie? On the other hand, it could be they stuck that bit in Quaid's mind just to make the dream that much more convincing; of ''course'' it's all real, because Rekall wouldn't lie about screwing up, would they?
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** There are two major factors that point to Quaid's experiences being real, at least in my opinion: (1) The fact that he dreams about Melina long before he meets her "for real," and (2) The dialogue between Dr. Lall and Bob about how Quaid can't simply be acting out his ego-trip because it hasn't been implanted yet. I personally think the whole thing being a dream is the more plausible explanation (mainly because, as you say, it explains away all the junk science like [[YouFailPhysicsForever [[ArtisticLicensePhysics the core of Mars being made of ice]]), but the second point is particularly damning; why would Rekall bother implanting any of that if he's not conscious to see it and it doesn't seem to have any bearing on the rest of the movie? On the other hand, it could be they stuck that bit in Quaid's mind just to make the dream that much more convincing; of ''course'' it's all real, because Rekall wouldn't lie about screwing up, would they?
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** Many people in the movie refer rather derisively towards the company, stating that more often than not, it causes some form of brain damage or psychosis. In the CrapsackWorld of the future, any kind of oversight or regulation might be so lax that a dangerous service like Rekall is allowed to operate rather freely, the salesman does evoke the image of a used car salesman rather glibly eliding over potential side effects as "ancient history". Of course the two people who try to warn Quaid off are his handlers who have a vested interest in keeping him away from anything that might endanger his cover.
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** Alternately, if the events are just a Rekall gone horribly wrong, its just a massive plot device that allows Quaid to save the planet and get the girl, logic be damned.
